Citations:supernerdy

English citations of supernerdy

Adjective: "extremely nerdy"

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• 1996, Michael Krantz, "The Literature of Nerds Goes Mainstream", Time, 8 July 1996:

  Back in the 1950s, science-fiction literature earned a reputation as the opiate of supernerdy teenage boys: sturdy but unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories.

• 1997, Katherine Applegate, Never Trust Lara, Avon Books (2000), →ISBN, page 34:

  "I'll be darned — I think you're right — Claire with a supernerdy guy? Wow — this is even crazier than seeing myself look like a six-hundred-pound sumo wrestler!"

• 1999, David Shields, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, Three Rivers Press (1999), →ISBN, page 118:

  Vinnie, whose accent is very broad, very New Yawk, very Queens, very Italian, puts on a supernerdy "white guy" voice, saying, "What exactly is this 'Living Legal and Large' thing?"

• 1999, Michael J. Wolf, The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives, Time Books (1999), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  There happens to be a pretty lively one in Manhattan at the corner of Twenty-sixth Street and Sixth Avenue, where, amid the old Led Zeppelin LPs and 1982 New York Mets yearbooks, you might find a nice piece of china or two, maybe an antique fly rod or a supernerdy CP/M computer that you can take the screen out of and make into a planter — all for the low admission price of a dollar.

• 2006, Jordan Roter, Girl in Development, Speak (2007), →ISBN, page 83:

  You know, two unpopular, supersmart, and supernerdy girls, frustrated with their own supernerdiness, create the perfect guy using, like, soap on-a-rope and dental floss, or something silly like that.

• 2008, Nick Tasler, The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All, Fireside (2008), →ISBN, page 37:

  Microsoft was a niche business catering to a relatively small network of supernerdy customers.

• 2009, Chad Perkins, How to Do Everything: Adobe Photoshop CS4, McGraw Hill Professional (2009), →ISBN, page 60:

  And these 3D features work amazingly well. If you don't have Photoshop CS4 Extended or don't plan on working with 3D files, sorry for the supernerdy tech gibberish.

• 2010, Shinan Govani, Bold Face Names, HarperCollins (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  […] And also get in lots of supernerdy boldface, like Michael Cera.”

• 2012, Carley Moore, The Stalker Chronicles, Farrar Straus Giroux (2012), →ISBN, page 74:

  Our bandleader, Mr. Desmond, was a part-time science fiction geek, so our music selections often veered toward the supernerdy.

• 2013, Ophira Eisenberg, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, Seal Press (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  My top two prospects: the supernerdy redhead Kieran, because he looked like the male version of the sexy librarian and might be a vivacious animal under that maroon cardigan; […]